Author : Viviane Minne-Seve
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780810944367
Chronicles the history of Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture throughout France, focusing in particular on ecclesiastical structures, paintings, manuscripts, and stained glass, while putting each landmark in its historical setting.
Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1119077729
A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.
Author : Gloria Fossi
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781402759246
Too often overshadowed by the Renaissance, the High Middle Ages were a time of vibrant innovation and incredible achievement in European art and architecture. Gloria Fossi provides comprehensive surveys of the period's two major art movements or styles, highlighting the diversity of expression that both movements accommodated.
Author : Whitney S. Stoddard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429973764
This is an English-language study on the architecture and art of medieval France of the Romanesque and Gothic periods between 1000-1500. In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods and specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship between all forms of medieval ecclesiastical art and characterization of the Gothic cathedral, which he believes to have an almost metaphysical basis.
Author : David Stephenson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568988405
The author documents photographically more than eighty Romanesque and Gothic vaults from medieval churches, cathedrals, and basilicas.
Author : Ethan Matt Kavaler
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300167924
This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of northern Europe of this era. The years after 1500 brought the construction of several iconic Late Gothic monuments, including the transept facades of Beauvais cathedral in northern France, much of King's College in Cambridge, England, and the parish church at Annaberg in Saxony. Most designers and patrons preferred this elite Gothic style, which was considered fashionable and highly refined, to alternative Italianate styles. Ethan Matt Kavaler connects Gothic architecture to related developments in painting and other media, and considers the consequences of the breakdown of the Gothic system in the early 16th century. Late Gothic architecture is recognized for its sensuous and abundant ornament. Its visually rich surfaces signify wealth and magnificence, and its flamboyant geometric designs portray a system of perfect and essential forms that convey spiritual authority, while often serving as signs of personal or corporate identity. Renaissance Gothic presents a groundbreaking and detailed study of the Gothic architecture of the late 15th and 16th centuries across Europe.
Author : Jean Bony
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520055865
Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances—the result of a continuining quest for new ways of handling space and light as well as experimenting with the mechanics of stone construction. He shows how the new architecture came unexpectedly to be invented in the Paris region around 1140 and follows its history—in the great cathedrals of northern France and dozens of other key buildings—to the end of the thirteenth century, when profound changes occurred in the whole fabric of medieval civilization. Rich illustrations, including comprehensive maps, enhance the text and themselves constitute an exceptionally valuable documenation. Despite its evident scholarly intention, this book is not meant for specialists alone, but is conceived as a progressive infiltration into the complexities of history at work, revealing its unpredictable vitality to the uninitiated curious mind.
Author : Jacqueline E. Jung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107022959
This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.
Author : Charles M. Radding
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300061307
The 11th and 12th centuries witnessed a transformation of European culture, from architecture and the visual arts to history, philosophy, theology and even law.
Author : Burgo Partridge
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1787207471
An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is “a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc.” Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through the ages. He begins with the Greeks, who celebrated sexuality at Dionysian festivals, and the Romans, who imported unwholesome brutalities into their orgiastic celebrations. We then learn of the penchant for group sex displayed by medieval popes, the junketings of Restoration England, the aristocratic hedonists of the Hellfire Club and Scotland’s notorious Wig Club, the orgiastic tastes of Casanova and the Marquis de Sade, right into the 20th century and the bizarre excesses of Aleister Crowley.
